This Sternberg character, the creationist at the Smithsonian who has made a career out of his pseudo-martyrdom, has been "vindicated" in a Republican report. Well, he would have been vindicated, if the report hadn't been a thin tissue of lies.
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Joe Carter of Evangelical Outpost has replied to my post that pointed out that none of the bloggers who jumped so eagerly on the Sternberg situation as proof of his martyrdom have bothered to mention the other side of the story, Coddington's denial of the accusations. He says:
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Ed Brayton has the must-read post of the day.
Remember Richard Sternberg? He's the former editor of the journal Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. A while back he published a pro-ID paper in the journal. Sternberg was a research associate at the Smithsonain Institution at the…
Some of you are aware, I'm sure, of the controversy that has been raging throughout the right side of the blogosphere concerning Richard von Sternberg and the Smithsonian. Based solely on an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, everyone from the Discovery Institute to the Worldnutdaily and a…
Over at PT, a massive 400+ comment thread has degenerated into the kind of slimefest I have no tolerance for nor interest in. I wouldn't even have noticed this comment from Gary Hurd if someone hadn't alerted me to it. But since it's full of dishonest accusations against me, I think it deserves a…
Wasn't there something in almost all versions and translations of the Holy Bible about a little something that God told Moses to tell the people of Israel about shalt notting bear false witness, or thou shouldn't lie?
Must not be in the version von Sternberg reads.
Why the hell are they letting him keep his job when he's abusing it that much?
It's bad enough that we're all forced to pay this whiney idiot's salary. But exactly how much did we also have to pay for Rep. Souter's entirely pointless investigation?
I have a friend who used to work at the NCBI (the group that maintains GenBank, among other things; that's who pays Sternberg's salary - not the Smithsonian) and she says that although he's an embarrassment to them publicly there is nothing they can really do as he competently helps maintain the taxonomy database.